Crossword-Solution: BUFFA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Buffa | n. fem. | The comic actress in an opera. |
| Buffa | a. | Comic, farcical. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “BUFFA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Comic," as operas | 1 answer |
| Opera ___ (comic opera): It. | 1 answer |
| Opera ___ (or the start of an Old West showman's split personality) | 1 answer |
| Woman singer of comic roles in opera. | 1 answer |
| opera singer type | 7 answers |
| singer type opera | 7 answers |
| Actress | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BUFFA (5)
Towards the evening the duke said,-- "If you go to the Opera Buffa you will please Leonilda." He gave me the number of her box, and added,-- "I will come for you towards the close, and we will sup together as before." I had no need to order my horses to be put in, as there was always a carriage ready for me in the courtyard.
Towards the evening the duke said,-- “If you go to the Opera Buffa you will please Leonilda.” He gave me the number of her box, and added,-- “I will come for you towards the close, and we will sup together as before.” I had no need to order my horses to be put in, as there was always a carriage ready for me in the courtyard.
Putting their heads together, the two wrote "Der Rosenkavalier." It was perhaps shrewd on their part that they avoided all allusion to the opera buffa of the period and called their work a "comedy for music." It enabled them, in the presence of the ignorant, to assume a virtue which they did not possess; but it is questionable if that circumstance will help them any.
The German version, in which the opera had its first hearing in Munich six years before, is in a vastly different case--neither uncouth nor halting, even though it lacks the characteristic fluency essential to Italian opera buffa; yet no more than did the speech of most of the singers at the Metropolitan performance.
But Italian, not German--seria, not buffa! I have now written you all that is in my heart; my mother is satisfied with my plan.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1955–2022).